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History Detectives

Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta presents the diary of a fallen NVN soldier to Vietnamese Minster of Defense, Phung Quang Thanh. Watch Tues, Oct. 2 at 7pm.

Can HISTORY DETECTIVES return the diary of a fallen North Vietnamese soldier to that veteran’s family? U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta takes part in the exchange. A notebook with recipes for large volumes of liquor makes an Indiana man wonder if his rich uncle earned money bootlegging during Prohibition. What can a ledger tell us about Hollywood’s treatment of Native-American actors? How did they earn their pay? Did producers treat them fairly?

Watch an all new History Detectives Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 7pm.

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Crosby Kemper III Visits With Edgar Snow

Watch <strong><em>Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III</em></strong> Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 8pm.

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Edgar Snow, as portrayed by actor Robert Gibby Brand. Filmed on the Lyric Opera set for Nixon in China in the Muriel Kauffman Theatre of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Snow, born in Kansas City in 1905, was a journalist best known for his writings about China in the 1930s, most especially Red Star Over China, a largely favorable account of Mao and his Communist Red Army guerrilla forces. The book introduced Mao and his “agrarian reformers” to the western world and made Snow famous.

Watch Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 8pm.

Major funding for this season of Meet the Past has been provided by the Courtney S. Turner Charitable Trust, Ken and Cindy McClain, and the J. B. Reynolds Foundation.

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Meet the Past – Thomas Jefferson

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Thomas Jefferson at The Central Library on Thursday, September 20. 2012 at 6:30pm.

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by Patrick Lee. Join us at The Central Library on Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 6:30pm. The Central Library is located at 14 W. 10th Street in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.

Jefferson, America’s third president and author of the Declaration of Independence, was also a big supporter of the humanities.

The event will be taped by KCPT for later broadcast.

Update: Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III airs Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 8pm on KCPT.

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Death and The Civil War: American Experience

Political and social changes wrought by the pervasiveness and fear of death during the Civil War. Watch Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 7pm.

Drawing heavily on This Republic of Suffering, historian and Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust’s acclaimed book, “Death and the Civil War” explores a critical but largely overlooked aspect of the Civil War experience: the immense and varied implications of the war’s staggering and unprecedented death toll. The war created a veritable “republic of suffering,” as landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted described the wounded and dying arriving at Union hospital ships on the Virginia Peninsula. The shattering Civil War death toll transformed hundreds of thousands of individual lives and the life of the nation as well, from its understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship to the profound struggle of a deeply religious culture to reconcile these events with a belief in a benevolent God. The film examines the increasingly lethal years of the war, focusing primarily on several key battles and their corpse-strewn aftermaths, and concludes with a section on the postwar efforts toward reburial and remembrance. The program premieres in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of Antietam, the bloodiest one-day battle in American history.

Watch Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 7pm.

Watch Death and the Civil War Extended Promo on PBS. See more from American Experience.

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